Born in 1976, AtariST in 88 then Amiga500 in 90. Gaming,
then interested in demos, 3D rendering, music (mods),
especially after getting an A1200 in 93. Wanted to know how
to code to do a visual plugin for modplayers (would have
looked like the State
Of The Art demo from Spaceballs).

Anyway, around 95 I
started messing with shell, asm and C. Did a very useful
utility in asm (much easier than C for beginners) to list
packed modules: xList
(still coding interest related to music).

In 96, began
to learn Pascal and C at university, installed openbsd or
netbsd (cant remember) on Amiga.

In 97, my first and
only released MUI app: XpkCybPrefsGUI
(or XCP-GUI; a powerful prefs editor for a clever
data-adaptative packing lib of a friend). Installed Linux to
get a more reliable floppy support.

In 98, got a PC and
Linux. Tried to code a modular modplayer like those on
Amiga, but failed. It would need years to take an Unix to
the level of the Amiga, regarding the available APIs for
multimedia, userfriendly apps. Got interested in gimp
hacking (unstable versions are fun to debug).

In 99,
started a MUI clone for X11, dubbed Zune
(means nothing, but short and sounds good). X11 just
got the GTK and Qt quality toolkits a couple of years
before, after years of Motif borkiness compared to how MUI
ruled on Amiga :) And I wanted to do a MUI clone since 96.
Odd years are productive. The toolkit had the main classes
working and simple yet nice example apps, but convinced by
the no-future of the software and some
implementation/portability problems inherent to Amiga
softwares, I lost interest.

2000, nothing interesting.
Probably still tried to do the perfect modular player (xmms
sucked, as well as all other unix players). Ah yes, some
xmms plugins (ahx, tfmx, fxtoolbox).
Finished studies, began to work. These years include some
stuff that still made it to the public : hacks on that POS
called Jabber (xdb_sql
was my main contrib AFAIR), and noob Perl scripts to
adduser/addgroup/etc... in Samba-LDAP (somehow got
distributed along Samba as smbldap-tools).
PS: I hate Jabber, really hard.

In 2002, quit the job,
got contacted by the AROS
project to change Zune license from GPL to APL. Agreed, and
got interested again in Zune and Amiga stuff.